London ...the cr*pest town in the UK

[Cletus Van Damme]

Cleator Moor - West Cumbria

 

[postman]

Blackpool,the only good thing about the place are the roads away.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Not tonight though

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Still gonna get relegated bonny lad.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Kilwinning. I was forced to recalibrate my crapometer when I visited there last spring.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

I don't like London, thats just me, I find it to busy, expensive and pretencious, but I don't think it qualifies as crap. Crap is a town with zero prospects, zero to do, zero culture, zero green fields and trees, and nothing but cars, potholes, and angry people..

You leave Athens out of it!! We are talking about England now...

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Actually I think all large towns are rubbish really....much rather be out in the countryside...forests..lakes....rivers....that kind of thing...and people seem to be way more aggressive in the towns than outside of them...one thing I choose not to tolerate any more is aggression.

 

[Beebo]

The authors have a new book to sell in time for Christmas. So this is great publicity. No one seriously beleives that London, which hosted the 2012 Olympics to world wide cheers is a crappy town.
Hull was top last time the authors ran the survey, this time Hull doesnt even make the top 50, that's how robust the survey is!!
If you want a crappy town, try Barrow in Furness. It fills @BigonaBianchi definition of "Crap town with zero prospects, zero to do, zero culture, zero green fields and trees, and nothing but cars, potholes, and angry people."

 

[Davidc]

I'd love to retire back to London in a few years time but can't afford to

 

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 2735511, member: 1314"]My cousin wrote an article about Hull for the Financial Times when Hull won...

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So he liked Hull then? Loved the bit about asylum seekers.

Perhaps he could do a comparison piece about London now that it has stolen Hull's crown?

 

[swee'pea99]

Amazed Basingrad didn't get a mention. 'Croydon without the glamour', as my sis describes it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

When i think of the worse place to live in Britain this always come out on top!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zreIj1VXYs

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The authors have a new book to sell in time for Christmas. So this is great publicity. No one seriously beleives that London, which hosted the 2012 Olympics to world wide cheers is a crappy town.
Hull was top last time the authors ran the survey, this time Hull doesnt even make the top 50, that's how robust the survey is!!

Why can't any of you actually find one of the books and take a look at it?

I think you will find that they are trying to find new places to write about, and a lot of the suggestions are actually from residents of the places as a pose to the authors making a list themselves.

Besides, Hull is on the 'improved' list for some reason I can't remember.

Bradford is in it because of all the large holes in the ground there are in the city Centre now apparently.

The City Of London is on it, basically because they are a bunch of money grabbing bankers (pardon the rhyming slang), and they decided to add various other bits of London in whilst they were at it, being it for the poverty and crime or the zillions of tourists at over priced and over hyped places, the pretentious Prosseco sipping soft southern poo softies who live there, and of course, all the other associated Nobbers and Nobbettes linked with the place!

Also, there are a few Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh places too.


..... YES some of it is tongue in cheek, but a lot of it is actually from the residents of the places themselves.

 

[[Philip]]

Whoever wrote that needs to go to Slough.


Interestingly, also:

slough (sl

f)
n.
A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, a sore, or an inflammation.